Congratulations and Kudos to Professors at GCC

Posted on September 30, 2011

Dr. Linda McCarthy and Dr. Anne Wiley had an article entitled Crossing the Digital Divide: Using Sociopolitical Websites in Course Design published in a recent journal entitled, Teaching for Our Times which is published by Bunker Hill Community College. In the article, the professors explore strategies they use in Sociology, Psychology and Gender/Women’s Studies courses. The article examines the use of internet websites to expose students to professional organizations and academic research. The “in class” explorations increase student’s ability to scrutinize legitimate academic resources and applications of data in social sciences research. An additional article in the same journal was written by nutrition professor, Lisa A. Sheldon. Lisa’s article Nutrition 101: More than a Grade explores the promotion of healthy living in students.

Additionally, Anne Wiley was selected from a national pool of applicants by the Online Learning Initiative [OLI] to review and examine psychology online course modules. The OLI is a project of Carnegie Mellon University, funded in part by the Lumina Foundation, and is designed to promote more success rates in online coursework in community colleges. The online project is part of the national efforts in outcomes assessment. Dr. Wiley’s ongoing work in the online course environment for the past decade has Anne excited to participate with other national scholars examining the efficacy and appropriateness of modular learning in the introductory course in Psychology.

Free viewing of the historical documentary "Valuing Lives: Wolf Wolfensberger and the Principle of Normalization" sponsored by The United Arc. Anyone with an interest in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities will find this film thought provoking and helpful in charting a beneficial course for loved ones, community members and those they work with.
“No one in the twentieth century has had such a profound impact on the languages, content, imagery, integrity, cadre training efforts or literature in the field of developmental disabilities as Wolf Wolfensberger.” — William Bronston, M.D.
The film will be followed by a discussion with Jack Yates. Jack worked to both learn from and teach with Dr. Wolfensberger who was his principle teacher for over forty years. He now works in staff development for Creating Our Common Wealth, a statewide project of the Department of Developmental Services. For several years Jack taught a graduate course at the Harvard Divinity School entitled “The Inclusive Community.”.

Join us for the first annual Dovi Afesi Lecture Series, featuring speaker David Lanoie, J.D. as he seeks to highlight the grossly disproportionate number of people of color, especially African-Americans, and the poor who are incarcerated pursuant to “tough-on-crime” and “drug war” policies in the United States.

A searing, two-hour PBS Frontline investigation places America’s heroin crisis in a fresh and provocative light—telling the stories of individual addicts, but also illuminating the epidemic’s years-in-the-making social context, deeply examining shifts in U.S. drug policy, and exploring what happens when addiction is treated like a public health issue, not a crime.

Attorney Tahirah Amatul-Wadud of Springfield discusses the state of affairs for Muslims in America in light of policies being made in the current political climate.
Ms. Amatul-Wadud is an attorney with a practice in domestic relations law and civil rights. She is a graduate of Elms College in Chicopee and Western New England University School of Law, in Springfield where she resides. She's a volunteer commissioner on the Mass. Commission on the Status of Women and a board member for the Massachusetts chapter for the Council on American Islamic Relations. She has recently been chosen to serve on the Family Advisory Council for Boston Children's Hospital. Ms. Amatul-Wadud was named a Top Woman of Law for 2016 by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.